Carbon's ebbs and flows probed
Julia Hinde marks World Oceans' Day with a trawl of marine research The role of oceans in preventing global warming is being assessed by British scientists who are taking their expertise to the...
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The Pauline Hanson Controversy
* "The Pauline Hanson Controversy" is the subject of a lecture by Tony Griffiths, a history lecturer from Flinders University in Adelaide, at 5.30pm on July 2 at the Menzies Centre for Australian...
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Too many chiefs drain coffers
COLLEGES appear to have fallen into the health service trap of employing more chiefs than indians, with an estimated extra Pounds 300 million spent employing managers in the past four years, writes...
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Don's diary
Monday Mixed feelings about my lot. The usual news of traffic jams and bad weather to delight the heart of the home worker but irritation that the "server is down" and therefore my virtual existence...
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What is the use of maths?
As far as I can remember, I have always found mathematics a thoroughly enjoyable, if challenging, endeavour. It carries the same intellectual challenge and sense of competition as chess and gives the...
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Porterhouse blues
(Photograph) - Porterhouse blues: Porters in traditional universities earn an average of Pounds 7,613 a year, despite working for some of the richest universities in the world. They would do better...
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Colleges could lose their medics
Medicine could become a postgraduate only subject and be transfered from universities to the NHS, a British Medical Association meeting heard this week. Colin Smith, chairman of the BMA Medical...
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Low pay scandal shames sector
HIGHER education workers are being exploited through a culture of low pay that leaves some earning half the amount of their private sector counterparts, a new survey has revealed. Trade unions have...
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Oxford women profs penalised
Most women professors at Oxford earn less than their male counterparts, with some on salaries as low as Pounds 30,000 a year. The discrepancy between male and female salaries at one of the country's...
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GNVQs fail to deliver for higher hopefuls
ONLY a fifth of those who register for Advanced General National Vocational Qualifications get into higher education, a study published today by the Institute of Education has found. Sir Ron Dearing'...
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Pass is equivalent of an A-level grade E
A PASS in an Advanced level GNVQ is broadly equivalent in quality to a grade E at A-level, a report from the Office of Standards in Education has found. The HMI report, Standards of Achievement in...
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Battle for the skies
Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal for England, and Anne Campbell, Labour MP for Cambridge, will meet science minister John Battle next Thursday in a bid to save the Royal Greenwich Observatory at...
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66 institutions in the red
SIXTY-SIX institutions were in deficit in 1995/96, according to figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency, 15 more than in 1994/95. HESA's new reference volume, Resources of Higher...
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More academics chosen by Labour
ACADEMICS were favoured with more key posts by the Government this week. Two of the four new members of the Bank of England's monetary policy committee are professors. Charles Goodhart, professor of...
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Human teaching pledge for Highlands and Islands
TECHNOLOGY will not overshadow human teaching in the proposed University of the Highlands and Islands, according to its new adviser, Alistair MacFarlane, former principal of Heriot-Watt University,...